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There is a perennial level of expertise that I think is legitimate, however, expertise can become a runaway quantitative problem if not kept in check by a baseline of skepticism and even cynicism. One of the problems with quantitative expertise in the form of experts is that specialized experts tend to lose the ability to think in more creative lateral multi-referential ways.

When you think of renaissance minds for instance you do not see them among the experts who have a specialized way of thinking. There is a balancing act between trusting believingexperts(which you should not do) and falling into cultish conspiritorial charismatic thinking which is also not anarchic. Anarchic thinking is more tailored to renaissance thinking which is a balance between specialized thinking and autodidactic thinking.